All,
here's my first attempt at describing the overhaul of the research section on Meta I have in mind. Please send me your feedback or be bold and edit the doc (apologies for using a Gdoc instead of a wiki page, but I'd like to see if we can reach an agreement within RCom on the general lines of this plan before making this public)
http://bit.ly/MetaResearch
Thanks
Dario
Dear all,
I started organizing the next RCom meeting and I'd like to hear about your availability for the following dates:
http://doodle.com/6uvmmq42ksi7yr9k
Please let me know if it's too short a notice for you to be able to attend, we should probably try and define a default time/day for future meetings to be able to follow a regular 1.5 month cycle.
I'll set up an Etherpad with the agenda for the meeting soon.
Thanks
Dario
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Hola!
I hope that you are fine.
"Ecco'me" again updating on the workshop proposal on "Wikipedia & Research: The innovative character of Wikipedia research and the new challenges (and opportunities) associated to it" at the Open Knowledge Conference (Berlin June 30th - July 1st 2011) (http://okcon.org/2011/).
Here there is the workshop proposal (as it is now): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_on_Wikipedia_%26_Research-_Open_Kno…
Please any input/comment/edit would be very welcome.
Daniel Mietchen, it would be fantastic if you could make it to the workshop. Otherwise, I can organise a Skype connection (also if others would like to cyber-attend it, too. Claudua Koltzenburg (in copy), please if you think there is space to synergy let me know.
I keep you informed on further developments. Thanks again. Have a nice day! Mayo
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Ph.D European University Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley.
Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation
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E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu
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From: rcom-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [rcom-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Mietchen [daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com]
Sent: 13 April 2011 22:09
To: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee mailing list
Cc: Claudia Koltzenburg
Subject: Re: [RCom-l] Track of activity + Suggestion activity on Wiki & research at the OKCon + Soon RCom meeting
Hello together,
I planned to attend OKCon in person this year when it's in Germany,
but as it happens, I shall be in London during that time, to attend
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/ .
I would be interested in exploring options for attending OKCon
remotely (my report from last year is at http://vimeo.com/11217854 )
and perhaps even to join your session, Mayo. Claudia Koltzenburg (in
CC) is also planning to contribute something on science and wikis -
perhaps we can coordinate these activities.
Cheers,
Daniel
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Dario Taraborelli
<dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi Mayo,
>
> many thanks for this, I'll fill in the page with materials from the previous reports/minutes.
> (I also moved it under Research Committee/Monthly report of activities to avoid confusion with other projects hosted on Meta)
>
> Great to hear about the panel proposal, Daniel: are you planning to attend OKCon too?
>
> Finally, thanks for the reminder, I'll start scheduling the next meeting shortly :)
>
> Dario
>
> On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Fuster, Mayo wrote:
>
>> Hello to all!
>>
>> How are you? I hope that you are all happy and fine!
>>
>> 1) In order to keep track and help to transmit our activity, I though to create a wiki-page to lists our monthly progresses. It might be also helpful in order to systematize the insights for Dario to write the monthly section on Research and strategy of the Wikimedia Foundation Report. You have it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Monthly_report_of_activities
>>
>> 2) I am attending a conference organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation (based in London) that will take place in Berlin (Juny 30th to July 1st 2011). In order to make proffit that I will be there, I though to suggest an activity (a panel or a presentation) to the organizers on Wikipedia & research, where also to spread the existance and role of RCom. Here is the conference page: http://okcon.org/2011/
>> If there are not rejections in the coming days, I will proceed (deadline to submit activities is 1st May). If there is someone else who is also planning to attend the event and would be happy to organize it with me, let me know. My plan would be also to contact the German Chapter in order to collaborate in organizing it and to spread it.
>>
>> Finally, our next meeting is planned for March/April 2011. So I should say "chat you" soon! :-) Cheers, Mayo
>>
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>> Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
>>
>> Ph.D European University Institute
>> Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
>> Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
>> Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley.
>> Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> http://www.onlinecreation.info
>> E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu
>> Skype: mayoneti
>> Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
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Hello all,
Mathias Schindler, Angelika Adam, and me have submitted a talk proposal for Wikimania on the topic of "Participating in research projects", aiming at the local chapters world wide (but currently, especially in Europe).
<http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Participating_in_resear…>
The idea is to talk about how externally funded research projects work, what it means to join them, and how to do so, etc. Last autumn Wikimedia Deutschland has joined the EU-funded project RENDER, and we want to talk about our experiences there.
We would be highly interested to find co-presenters with experience, especially from other regions of the World, to present what it would mean for Wikimedia organizations to join such projects, about the benefits and challenges, etc.
Please contact us if you are interested to join us, either via Email or Skype.
Cheers,
Denny
Hey folks,
Systems were down today so I managed to get a little bit of writing done.
I've worked up a draft of a guideline for on-wiki research (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/On-wiki_research).
I'm looking for feedback and/or edits. I'm hoping to use this as a catalyst
to restart discussions around research policy, recruitment and interfaces
with Wikimedia communities. The next thing on my plate is a rewrite of the
Subject Recruitment Approvals Group. I should have more on that soon.
Thanks,
-Aaron (EpochFail)
Dear all,
Wikimedia Commons hosts a lot of images (and some other files) from OA
publishers (e.g.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&se…
), and I am wondering whether that could be streamlined a bit.
Some issues that possibly stand in the way:
(1) It is not clear what percentage of such files from suitably
licensed papers would be of use in pages that use media hosted at
Commons (either at Wikimedia or via InstantCommons). If that
percentage is low, then the costs of hosting the unused files may
outweigh the benefit of having the used ones, though the ease of
automated upload (and possibly gardening) could shift the balance
quite a bit.
(2) Every publisher (and often journal) organize their files
differently, which the upload scripts would have to take into account.
Would this mean that multiple bot accounts would have to be requested
as per http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Requests ? If
so, some means of enforcing common standards would be necessary.
Not sure whether RCom-l is the right place to discuss that, but I
thought I'd give it a try, since working on standards is part of our
mission.
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
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Hello to all!
How are you? I hope that you are all happy and fine!
1) In order to keep track and help to transmit our activity, I though to create a wiki-page to lists our monthly progresses. It might be also helpful in order to systematize the insights for Dario to write the monthly section on Research and strategy of the Wikimedia Foundation Report. You have it here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Monthly_report_of_activities
2) I am attending a conference organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation (based in London) that will take place in Berlin (Juny 30th to July 1st 2011). In order to make proffit that I will be there, I though to suggest an activity (a panel or a presentation) to the organizers on Wikipedia & research, where also to spread the existance and role of RCom. Here is the conference page: http://okcon.org/2011/
If there are not rejections in the coming days, I will proceed (deadline to submit activities is 1st May). If there is someone else who is also planning to attend the event and would be happy to organize it with me, let me know. My plan would be also to contact the German Chapter in order to collaborate in organizing it and to spread it.
Finally, our next meeting is planned for March/April 2011. So I should say "chat you" soon! :-) Cheers, Mayo
«·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·»
«·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·»
«·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·»
Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
Ph.D European University Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley.
Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.onlinecreation.info
E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu
Skype: mayoneti
Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
FYI :-)
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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2011/3/31
Subject: Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation
To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is
joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy,
reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based in San Francisco,
having relocated from the UK. Dario joins Howie Fung and me as part of
the Wikimedia Foundation Strategy Team. Our job is to advance
Wikimedia's strategic thinking on an ongoing basis, and to help
organize relevant research and analytics.
Dario most recently was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre
for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey in the UK.
Previously he was Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Psychology,
University College London. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, an MSc in
Cognitive Science, and an MA in Philosophy of Science. He has taught
at various universities, including Sciences Po in Paris, Université
Paris 7, and École Normale Supérieure. He has served as advisor and
editor for numerous scientific publications, organizations and
conferences.
Notably, Dario has participated in wiki-related research and
development since 2004. He is lead developer of WikkaWiki, an open
source wiki engine; developer of WikiTracer, a prototype toolkit for
wiki analytics; and founder and developer of ReaderMeter, a mashup
visualizing readership of scholarly publications. He has led or
participated in many other projects relevant to wikis and social
media. See http://nitens.org/taraborelli/research for a list of his
research projects and publications.
Dario has supported the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor since
December 2010. Since then he has worked on a number of projects for
us, including:
- Analysis of data from the pilot of the Article Feedback Tool. You
can see his initial findings here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/February…
- Organizing meetings and priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation
Research Committee. See:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_Committee
- With Daniel Mietchen and Giota Alevizou (members of RCom),
organizing a survey of expert participation in Wikipedia projects.
See:
http://survey.nitens.org/?sid=21693
- In collaboration with Moritz Stefaner and Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia,
an analysis and visualization of AfD discussions in the English
Wikipedia:
http://notabilia.net
I'm very excited to have Dario on our team. He and his family are
still settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dario's official start
date is April 18. Please join me in welcoming him!
All best,
Erik
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I've just come across a really important bit of research on EN wiki.
User:Mr.Z-man analyzed the new accounts created in February to see how
many were still editing in September.
Key findings:
Over two thirds of new accounts had still not become editors after 6 months.
Editors who start by creating articles are only about a quarter of new
editors, three quarters edit existing articles. I find this credible
if a little on the low side. But over ten thousand newbies created an
article in February 2010, had their article deleted and ceased
editing.
Editors whose articles are not deleted are over seven times more
likely to remain than editors whose articles were deleted.
As one would expect, the retention rate of Article creators was much
lower than of other new editors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mr.Z-man/newusers
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